Robert Whitfield MD discusses whether saunas are safe for people with implants. One patient with implants since age 18 reported worsening inflammation and fatigue after using a 220-degree sauna at home. Dr. Whitfield says FDA testing doesn't cover implant exposure to such high heat and recommends stopping if you feel worse.
220 degrees
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Five years ago
Yeah. I mean, we crank that thing up.
And also here's the weird thing. I had implants since I was 18. I had two great surgeons. I got them redone five years ago. They were awesome surgeons. But when I moved to Texas, I got a sauna in my home.
Yeah.
And I also got an infrared. So I had a barrel and an infrared. And I was hitting it. And then that's when it got. The inflammation got worse. But you would think with a sauna that the inflammation would get better.
So. But if somebody has any implant, maybe not a titanium like you said, and they are going to go into a sauna that's 220 degrees, you're saying that the FDA would have never tested heating these things up at that heat. So you may think you're going in there.
Not in a person.
Not in a person. So you may think you're going in there to detox. But me, who has obviously no implants, is going to feel much different.
What about your dick?
What do you mean?
What about the dick implant?
Well, yeah, I mean, I have to get that removed. It's becoming a burden. But no. So someone like me, I'll feel great. But someone that may have implants might feel exact opposite because they're heating up and they maybe shouldn't be.
Yeah. I think, you know, when you feel worse after a sauna session, that should tell you that's not the right thing.
Every single time I would do the sauna, and you can ask Michael, I would need a nap. It was so weird. You would. I thought you were supposed to get energy and I would need to. And so what I kept telling myself was, oh, this is my body's way of intuitive. Intuitively telling me I need to rest. The sauna's telling it. But what it was.
You're acutely inflaming yourself.
Yes. And I want everyone. And you gave me this example to think of a hot water bottle in a car. When it heats up, it's sort of like. It kind of like melts into itself.
Yeah. The thing for you, I thought for sure your implant was infected. I would have taken it to the bank. I had it tested twice, actually, because I didn't believe it. And I'm somebody who believes in what I do. So you are melting your implant.
I crank that thing up 220.
I often say my archdeacon, either from my wife or the groundwater, we don't know which. But Michael might have been trying to melt you.
Well, because I think. But I mean, with more and more people doing this, if you have an implant, you might want to think about this, because we never thought about this. We just thought, oh, you go in the sauna, and there's so many studies that show for inflammation and detoxification. That sauna could be great, but maybe not for people that have implants.
Here's my problem with this conversation.
